St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-08

/ SOLDIERS BARRACKS on TIE FRONTIER
| CT sheckelS in his pockets, abundance
| OF experience in his head and also with
/ rich, rosy health to his credit. In the
+ guiar army to-day there are: One
lieutenant general, 3 ma iOr generals, IS
brigadiers, GS colonels, 81 lieutenant
col0nels, 233 majors, GEO captains, 645
first lieutenGnts ard Al second
lieutenants. The above are the
commissioned branch. Now come
10 sergeant majors the highest rank
noXt to commissioned officer, 40
duartermaSter SergeantS, 10 chief muI-
sicians, 60 principal musicians, about AS
saddler, ordinance and commiSsary ser
geantS, chief trumpeterS, hospital
Stewards. etc, 1850 line sergeants, 1888
corporals and very nearly $1,000 pri-
Yates. The grand total is something like
IS, 167 all told. Outside of the staff de-
partmentS the above are contained
Especially the enlisted branch) in %
regiments of infantry, 10 regiments of
cavalry, 5 regiments of artillery and a
Battalion of engineers. Of course this
little mite of an army is scattered over
an immense amount of territory, and
even if gathered together in one bunch
would scarce make Il respectable show
ing alongside of tie mOnstrouS
standing armies of Europe, but this
handful is a nucleOuS for tremendous eX-
panSion, and the skeleton companies
could be increased almost instanta-
neously fourfold or more without in the
least bit disarranging the excellent Or
ganiZation which is now its boast and
its pride. More than half the regular
army is west of the Mississippi river.
Forts and military posts are situated in
nearly all the territories, and these are
+ h.r
else to do Eow than regular garrison
duty. a recruit from date of enlistment
draws S13 per month the first year, S13
|. tie second year, S14 the third, SIS the
fourth and SIG the fifth year. Some of
this is retained, which is all paid over to
linn by the paymaster on the day of his
discharge. In addition to his pay he
gets board, lodging and a certain allow
asice of clothing, which is settled semi
annually on the muster rolls. His aver
age pay per month, second enlistment,
tends roll calls and plays base ball. The
ordinary routine for a day is as follows:
Sunrise, reveille, rOll-call. If cav
alryman, stables Immediately after
wards, when each man grooms, feeds,
waters his horse and then breakfast for
himself.
Fatigue at 7:3O, when those not on
other duty are detailed to do any extra
work about the garrison, such as polio
ing the post, clearing away old rubbish,
watering trees, loading and unloading
stores and, in fact, attending to any
other chores that need attention.
AT s:45 the buglers sound the first call
for guard-mounting. This is a most
beautiful ceremony, of daily occurrence,
and is for the purpose of relieving the
old guard by new detail, changing the
officer of the day, ETC., being really the
beginning of the official day at all the
forts. The post-fag is run up at sun
rise and lowered at sunset. After
guard-mounting drills are in order. If
in midsummer, when the weather is
very hot, some more suitable hour is Sc
glected for this exercise. There is little
to do between 8 o'clock and noon, the /
main duty being performed by the
various fatigue parties, and, per-
haps, garrison of general court
martial may be in session. All the af-
terh0on is idle time, with the exception